Bloom on BM

[Tara Brady]

Sadly, it's the other Bloom.



2009/6/16 Tara Brady <madame.brady at gmail.com>

> It's a sunny Bloomsday here in Dublin.
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> And every bar has jazz playing.
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> I've never understood the jazz part.
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> Tara
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> 2009/6/16 Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Livingston" <
>> igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>> To: "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
>> Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:13 PM
>> Subject: Re: Bloom on BM
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>> Do you mean his (Bloom's) Marxist orientation as an economic socialist
>> or as a literary formalist?
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>> More as a comedian with a severe case of anxiety of influence.
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>> In other words Groucho not Karl.
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>> Sorry for the confusion :-)
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>> P
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>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>>> To: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 10:26 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Bloom on BM
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>>>> In a Barnes & Noble college textbook store outside of NY,
>>>> I found some big literary anthology with critics. In the store I read a
>>>> moving-enough
>>>> essay by Bloom on a reread of Lot 49. A reread set in the 00s
>>>> after/during
>>>> the buildup?
>>>> to the Iraq war.....he nicely linked the paranoia then to the paranoia
>>>> in
>>>> the novella....he wrote
>>>> of how this novella has lawys spoken to the paranopia of the times.....
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>>>> I thought this essay would be in one of his books and be easy to find. I
>>>> didn't try as
>>>> hard as I could, but it isn't easy to find......
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>>>> For What It is Worth.
>>>>
>>>> Mark
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>>> Bloom is quite forthright about his Marxist orientation.
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>>> "What ever it is I'm against it,"
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>>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>>> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>>>> To: "pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:20:58 PM
>>>> Subject: Bloom on BM
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>>>> http://www.avclub.com/articles/harold-bloom-on-blood-meridian,29214/
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>>>> a book I can't help revisiting every few years--wolves, apaches, gun
>>>> smoke, and the Judge
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>>>> I don’t know what I would choose if I had to select a single work of
>>>> sublime fiction from the last century, it probably would not be
>>>> something by Roth or McCarthy; it would probably be Mason & Dixon, if
>>>> it were a full-scale book, or if it were a short novel it would
>>>> probably be The Crying Of Lot 49. Pynchon has the same relation to
>>>> fiction, I think, that my friend John Ashbery has to poetry: he is
>>>> beyond compare.
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